Re: sunffb revival

[Gregor Riepl]

> Can you upload your package to Debian Mentors so I can review and sponsor it?

I already did, and I thought I had announced it here?
(please see my previous message)

> Also, please don't forget to file an ITP bug report.

Good idea. Since Romain has verified that it works, I think we can go ahead

> Oh, and does the package build on architectures other than sparc*? Otherwise
> we won't be able to upload it to the official archives.

It does at least on amd64, but I doubt it will be very useful...
Should I set the Arch to any and the distribution to unstable then?

Aside from that, I think I should set the maintainer to debian-sparc so we get
bug reports to the list, right?
Do we have a group on Salsa for maintaining the source? I'd have to join the X
Strike Force or give you commit permissions otherwise.

Re: sunffb revival

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Gregor!

On 08/12/2018 02:00 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> 2018-07-26 22:03 GMT+02:00 Gregor Riepl :
>> I'm not sure how UPA works exactly, but I don't think it matters what bus
>> architecture the machine is based on.
> 
> Indeed, after building your package, it works just fine on my U1:-)
> 
> I get the same occasional display corruption as I got with my previous
> hackish FFB driver, but those could be the userland badly interacting
> with the big-endian system...
> (I'm running WindowMaker & xterm).

Sounds good.

Can you upload your package to Debian Mentors so I can review and sponsor it?

Also, please don't forget to file an ITP bug report.

Oh, and does the package build on architectures other than sparc*? Otherwise
we won't be able to upload it to the official archives.

Adrian

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Re: sunffb revival

[Romain Dolbeau]

2018-07-26 22:03 GMT+02:00 Gregor Riepl :
> I'm not sure how UPA works exactly, but I don't think it matters what bus
> architecture the machine is based on.

Indeed, after building your package, it works just fine on my U1:-)

I get the same occasional display corruption as I got with my previous
hackish FFB driver, but those could be the userland badly interacting
with the big-endian system...
(I'm running WindowMaker & xterm).

Thanks & cordially,

-- 
Romain Dolbeau

Re: sunffb revival

[Gregor Riepl]

>> I'd be happy to maintain the package.
>> The build I prepared for my system works, I just verified it this morning.
> 
> Do you need a sponsor for that package? If yes, please upload it to
> Debian Mentors and I'm happy to review it.

I had to change a few things and re-import the source package as the Debian
git repository wasn't constructed according to modern standards.

I'm still not quite happy with the result, as the upstream source tarball has
autoconf/automake files that are removed by d/rules clean, which causes errors
on subsequent builds with gbp.

But in any case, you should be able to build and run the sunffb driver from
the files I pushed to d.mentors:
https://mentors.debian.net/package/xserver-xorg-video-sunffb

Re: sunffb revival

[Gregor Riepl]

> I'll try as soon as I can on my Ultra 1. I had a working driver some
> time ago (),
> but not the Debian way.
> 
> I assume the driver should work on SBus machine as well as PCI
> machine, as it's UPA-based in both cases ?

I'm not sure how UPA works exactly, but I don't think it matters what bus
architecture the machine is based on.

> Thanks everyone for all the great work :-) If only I had the space for
> a T3 or a M4000...


I just realised that the Debian repository I based my patched version on
neither had a pristine-tar branch nor proper upstream release tags, and the
tarballs it wants are based on a newer upstream commit than the upstream 
tarball.

I may have to rebase and add the difference as a patch to make the source
package Debian-clean again. Once that's done, I'll upload the source bundle to
mentors, so you can fetch it there.

Re: sunffb revival

[Romain Dolbeau]

2018-07-24 23:34 GMT+02:00 Gregor Riepl :
> Perhaps this is useful to someone?

I'll try as soon as I can on my Ultra 1. I had a working driver some
time ago (),
but not the Debian way.

I assume the driver should work on SBus machine as well as PCI
machine, as it's UPA-based in both cases ?

Thanks everyone for all the great work :-) If only I had the space for
a T3 or a M4000...

Cordially,

-- 
Romain Dolbeau

Re: sunffb revival

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 07/25/2018 08:45 AM, Gregor Riepl wrote:
>> I am only on the periphery of this mailing list. If you are maintaining
>> the package from now on, I am confident that the package would be
>> accepted in the distribution again. I could also help with sponsoring.
> 
> I'd be happy to maintain the package.
> The build I prepared for my system works, I just verified it this morning.

Do you need a sponsor for that package? If yes, please upload it to
Debian Mentors and I'm happy to review it.

> By the way, is there an IRC channel for discussing the sparc64 port?

There is #debian-sparc on OFTC, but we all hang around in #debian-ports
on OFTC where we are discussing all Debian Ports architectures (alpha,
hppa, m68k etc).

Adrian

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Re: sunffb revival

[Gregor Riepl]

Hi Steffen,

> I am only on the periphery of this mailing list. If you are maintaining
> the package from now on, I am confident that the package would be
> accepted in the distribution again. I could also help with sponsoring.

I'd be happy to maintain the package.
The build I prepared for my system works, I just verified it this morning.

By the way, is there an IRC channel for discussing the sparc64 port?

Regards,
Gregor